Quotes About Contentment

Indigence and indulgence are the two extremes of wretchedness.

There's a saying, "The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.

I'm trying to have fewer things in my life right now. This doesn't always mean fewer trinkets that shine on a shelf. It also might mean fewer things that upset me. Fewer people who bother me. Fewer regrets about things that are long dead and buried. Fewer anxieties about a future that may or may not exist.

You can find the tools to be happy right now. I still don't know what my purpose is. I'm afraid I will never know. That makes me very happy. Maybe I can have lots of adventures between today and the day I die. Maybe I can do lots of different things. And if I don't—if I die even tomorrow—that's fine also. What does purpose mean when we are dead? We might as well choose to be happy now.

The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again." Everyone

In some cultures, like Buddhism, you want things in your life to disappear, to reduce your needs and desires

Spiritually we need to recognize the importance of wanting less in our lives, to the point that we want to disappear.

Don't run scared to another country. They aren't better. They are, for the most part, far worse.

What is enough? It's not a number.

To be happy with your loved ones. To be satisfied for every gift in your life, for every moment, not rushing to the next moment of mastery.

The definition of "success" for me is: "Is today successful?

Many studies show that the key to contentment and confidence is three things: *?Growing competence in a pursuit you love *?Strengthening every day the relationships around you *?Increasing your freedom of choices Quote from the pope: "If we start without confidence, already we have lost half the battle and we bury our talents.

large part of her simplicity consisted in determining not to want what she could not have with ease. So

I'm not really interested in being what Americans call 'happy'.

And she began rather to envy the stocky girl with the crush on Frank Sinatra, since she would settle one day, obviously, for a great deal less, and probably turn out children as Detroit turned out cars and never sigh for an instant for what she had missed, having indeed never, and especially with a lifetime of moviegoing behind her, missed anything.

The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.

Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.

But if we spend the vast majority of our time with people we love and respect—people we really enjoy being on the bus with and who will never disappoint us—then we will almost certainly have a great life, no matter where the bus goes. The people we interviewed from the good-to-great companies clearly loved what they did, largely because they loved who they did it with.

A man who can laugh at himself is truly blessed, for he will never lack for amusement.

I'm saying that some men are saints. Some are happy being meek and humble and unambitious. Some men are born content to be second-best.

I didn't care who we were. I required no consummation. I knew that whoever we were and whatever we had would never stop.

Ah's me! if we could be what what we wish to be, instead of being only what we are, there would be a great difference in our characters and knowledge and appearance. One may be rude and coarse and ignorant, and yet happy, if he does not know it; but it is hard to see our own failings in the strongest light, just as we wish to hear the least about them.

It is better for a man to die at peace with himself than to live haunted by an evil conscience!

Content is a great fortifier of good looks.